The Covered Sin: Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism (cape Books)
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Historian Edward Baptiste tells readers the fact that in the 80 years after American independence, the expansion of slavery promoted the development and modernization of the United States. In just a few decades, the South grew from dilapidated tobacco plantations in the coastal panhandle to a transcontinental cotton empire, laying an important foundation for the United States to develop into a modern capitalist industrial economy. Baptiste combines slave oral accounts, plantation-related records, and relevant statements from newspapers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves to give a new and bold interpretation of American history. He makes readers aware of the violence at the heart of American hegemony and the survival desire and resistance that ended slavery and created the culture that underpinned America's deepest dreams of freedom.
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